Scott L. Waugh is acting executive vice chancellor and provost of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was appointed in January 2007, following 14 years as dean of the Division of Social Sciences.

Waugh first came to UCLA as a student. He graduated summa cum laude in 1970, with a bachelor's degree in history and five years later, received a Ph.D. in English History from the University of London.

In 1975, he began teaching in the UCLA Department of History, where he served as department chair in 1991-92. In 1986, he received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and the Harvey L. Eby Award for the Art of Teaching. He has served as visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong, California Institute of Technology and California State University, Long Beach.

Since 1992, Waugh has led the Division of Social Sciences, UCLA's largest academic division, encompassing 15 departments and programs, many of them nationally ranked, and 12 research centers and institutes.

His many honors and fellowships include two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the UC President's Fellowship in the Humanities and a UCLA Faculty Development Award. He has written two books and co-edited a third and has published a number of articles in scholarly journals.